1 When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,2 "Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe,3 and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan from right where the priests stood and to carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight."4 So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe,5 and said to them, "Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites,6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, 'What do these stones mean?'7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever."8 So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down.9 Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.10 Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything the LORD had commanded Joshua was done by the people, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried over,11 and as soon as all of them had crossed, the ark of the LORD and the priests came to the other side while the people watched.12 The men of Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over, armed, in front of the Israelites, as Moses had directed them.13 About forty thousand armed for battle crossed over before the LORD to the plains of Jericho for war.14 That day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they revered him all the days of his life, just as they had revered Moses.15 Then the LORD said to Joshua,16 "Command the priests carrying the ark of the Testimony to come up out of the Jordan."17 So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."18 And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD. No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and ran at flood stage as before.19 On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.20 And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.21 He said to the Israelites, "In the future when your descendants ask their fathers, 'What do these stones mean?'22 tell them, 'Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.'23 For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God."

1 فبكر يشوع في الغد وارتحلوا من شطيم واتوا الى الاردن هو وكل بني اسرائيل وباتوا هناك قبل ان عبروا.2 وكان بعد ثلاثة ايام ان العرفاء جازوا في وسط المحلّة3 وأمروا الشعب قائلين عندما ترون تابوت عهد الرب الهكم والكهنة اللاويين حاملين اياه فارتحلوا من اماكنكم وسيروا وراءه.4 ولكن يكون بينكم وبينه مسافة نحو الفي ذراع بالقياس. لا تقربوا منه لكي تعرفوا الطريق الذي تسيرون فيه. لانكم لم تعبروا هذا الطريق من قبل5 وقال يشوع للشعب تقدسوا لان الرب يعمل غدا في وسطكم عجائب.6 وقال يشوع للكهنة احملوا تابوت العهد واعبروا امام الشعب. فحملوا تابوت العهد وساروا امام الشعب7 فقال الرب ليشوع. اليوم ابتدئ أعظمك في اعين جميع اسرائيل لكي يعلموا اني كما كنت مع موسى اكون معك.8 واما انت فأمر الكهنة حاملي تابوت العهد قائلا. عندما تأتون الى ضفة مياه الاردن تقفون في الاردن9 فقال يشوع لبني اسرائيل تقدموا الى هنا واسمعوا كلام الرب الهكم.10 ثم قال يشوع بهذا تعلمون ان الله الحي في وسطكم وطردا يطرد من امامكم الكنعانيين والحثّيين والحويين والفرزّيين والجرجاشيين والاموريين واليبوسيين.11 هوذا تابوت عهد سيد كل الارض عابر امامكم في الاردن.12 فالآن انتخبوا اثني عشر رجلا من اسباط اسرائيل رجلا واحدا من كل سبط.13 ويكون حينما تستقر بطون اقدام الكهنة حاملي تابوت الرب سيد الارض كلها في مياه الاردن ان مياه الاردن المياه المنحدرة من فوق تنفلق وتقف ندا واحدا.14 ولما ارتحل الشعب من خيامهم لكي يعبروا الاردن والكهنة حاملو تابوت العهد امام الشعب15 فعند أتيان حاملي التابوت الى الاردن وانغماس ارجل الكهنة حاملي التابوت في ضفة المياه. والاردن ممتلئ الى جميع شطوطه كل ايام الحصاد.16 وقفت المياه المنحدرة من فوق وقامت ندا واحدا بعيدا جدا عن ادام المدينة التي الى جانب صرتان. والمنحدرة الى بحر العربة بحر الملح انقطعت تماما وعبر الشعب مقابل اريحا.17 فوقف الكهنة حاملو تابوت عهد الرب على اليابسة في وسط الاردن راسخين وجميع اسرائيل عابرون على اليابسة حتى انتهى جميع الشعب من عبور الاردن